Movers and shakers: creating organisational change

Abstract

This book has focused on women and their work organisations during a period of extensive social and economic restructuring. In particular the case study chapters have explored some of the opportunities and threats to women’s positions and progression within a range of different organisations. We have focused especially on the impact made by women themselves, through their increased presence in the workplace, by their individual actions in pursuit of their own careers, and by their collective strategies — in two main senses. Firstly whereby women use a collective or joint forum for the particular purpose of achieving their own individual career goals, and secondly where they do so as a strategic and explicit means of pursuing challenge and change to gender relations in patriarchal organisations.